Paramount wants to be Player One in video games.
The company, currently in the regulatory process of its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, is launching Paramount Games Studio. The Tony Driscoll-led video game studio will combine existing games studios Skydance Interactive and Skydance New Media, and draw heavily from Paramount’s IP. To this point, Paramount’s gaming endeavors have mostly been through the licensing of its library properties to third parties.
Paramount Games Studio plans to make AAA games.
Paramount and Skydance were merged by David Ellison last summer, and now he’s paying $111 billion to get Warner Bros. Discovery; WB Games just launched a new LEGO Batman game. It released Hogwart’s Legacy in 2023. The Paramount Skydance/WBD merger is expected to close later this year.
“This division launch marks a meaningful evolution in how we think about games — not as an extension of our business, but as a core pillar of our content strategy alongside film, television, and streaming,” Driscoll said in a statement.
